[zamalek]

> It looks like some overzealous designer started making UX decisions they weren't qualified to make and now the app is unusable.

At least they tried.

I used the previous iteration (Windows) for all of 5 minutes before deciding that the cognitive load which that awful UI caused wasn't worth it. I switched back to CLI+GHFW until Git Kraken[1] entered beta and, well, I no longer see any reason to reconsider my GUI client. Still, that incompetent UX was one of the biggest problems on Windows. Kudos to them for revisiting it.

[1]: http://www.gitkraken.com/

[alimbada]

For the half day that I used the new version before realising it was too broken I noticed that the UX hasn't really changed; the UI has though, i.e. most of the changes are purely cosmetic.

[akerro]

Gitkraken is really good, and there is version for Linux.